Chapeltown, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Chapeltown is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1844 from Ecclesfield Ancient Parish; located on Housley Park.
Alternative names: Ecclesfield St John the Baptist, Housley Park
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- Parish registers: 1857
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHAPELTOWN, a chapelry in Ecclesfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the Sheffield and Barnesley railway, 7 miles N of Sheffield. It has a post office under Sheffield, and a station, jointly with Thorncliffe, on the railway.
It was constituted in 1844. Pop., 4,063. Houses, 797. Many of the inhabitants are colliers.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1860.
There are three dissenting chapels, two public schools, and endowed alms-houses with £130 a year.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CHAPELTOWN, a church district, in the parish of Ecclesfield, union of Wortley, wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill (N. division), W. riding of York, 6 miles (N.) from Sheffield; containing about 3000 inhabitants.
The district is three square miles in extent, and contains two villages. It lies on the new line of road called the Sheffield, Barnsley, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole road, which passes through the village of Chapeltown, as do the turnpike-road from Sheffield to Barnsley and Leeds, and the Rotherham, Worsley, and Penistone road.
Coal and ironstone of good quality are obtained; and the Chapeltown Company’s and Thorncliffe Company’s iron-works employ respectively several hundred hands. Good stone, also, is quarried for building.
The district was constituted in Sept. 1844, under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; and the erection of a church was commenced in the summer of 1847: it is in the decorated style, the cost being estimated at £2500.
There are three Wesleyan places of worship. At the Thorncliffe works is an excellent chalybeate spring; and in the garden of Howsley Hall is a fine old cork-tree in full growth, supposed to be the only one in England, with the exception of that at Windsor Castle.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Wortley
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Doncaster
- Poor Law Union: Wortley
- Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
- Province: York